The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-21
Local and State Notes.

Track-laying the New Albany e Vincennes
road, a branch of the Ohio & Mississippi, was
| commenced Thursday morning.
Tho Pennsylvania Company has raised the
salaries of several of their best ticket agents
The at Indianapolis has his advanced 80 per
cent
As mark of their distinguished consideration
the directors of the Illinois Central road voted
j. G. Clarke. their retiring president, $50 shares
of stock in the corporation.
William B. Strong president of the A. T. &
s. Fe road, was fifty years old on "Wednesday
| last. Mr.. Strong Is one of the most successful
railroad mon In this country.
1t is stated that the reports from nearly every
| station on the Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts
burg for April show increased passenger earn
ings over the same month of 1886.
Construction work on the Central Missouri
road has been commenced at ST. Charles just
west of ST. Louis. This is the proposed extern
sion of the Decline from St Louis to Kansas
| City.
The Leerande interlocking signal which goes
to the crossing of the c., II. IL d. and the c.. w.
| e. B. roads near Cincinnati is said to be of
the neatest pieces of mechanism OF this kind yet
turned out.
General freight agents do not look for much
of improvement in the grain movement be-
fore early in June The farmers are busy
taking of the growing crops that they find
no time to haul corn to the market.
Bee-line ticket agents have received instruc-
tons to resume the sale of tickets reading via
Niagara Falls and via Albany and down the Hud-
ing the fall and winter months
The sales of tickets at the outside Offices this
month have been the largest in many months.
What hurts the feelings of the ticket agents is
that their commissions were cut off just as the
Improvement in business comes
Chief Engineer Perry, of the Lake Erie &
Western, was in The city yesterday, taking
measurements upon which to prepare his plans
and specifications for the new building the COM
pany is to erect here for their general Offices.
With the opening of the Columbus g. Eastern
road into Columbus, o., competitor for
the coal trade of Indiana and Illinois comes into
the field, Already shipments of coal have been
made into this territory from mines on the line
The c.. II. & D. earned, the second week in
May. SCI. O29; increase over corresponding week
of 1886, $ll, 159. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois
earned $50. $50; increase this year. $l2 $50. The
Cairo 81 Vincennes, So. 499; increase this year.
S24.
George B. Edmonds, Eastern manager of the
Union line, died in Pittsburg night before last,
from rheumatic troubles. Mr.. Edmonds was
one of the bestknown and most popular freight
men in the country and his decease will be
great loss to the Pennsylvania Company.
The indianapolis local freight agents associa-
ton, which also controls the weighing assoca-
ton. have changed the programme and will rent
a room in :he Union Block. West Maryland
street. the same room which c. G. Gale occupied
when he was superintendent of the /. 81 st. l..
The work of relettering the l.. B. & w. equip
ments to read Columbus, Indianapolis 81 West
ern road will be commenced in a few days. The
prelminaries for q consolidation of the several
interests are practically completed, and little
else than make the announcement is left
to do.
The Chicago & Indiana Block coal road is haul
ing at cost gravel to point where the property
owners will improve their county roads. With
in the last two months they have delivered at
Fowler crossing, Benton county. Indiana, 500
carloads of gravel, and to another point they
delivering two train-loads per week.
The annual report of the c.. II. 81 D.. to be
read to the directors at their annual meeting in
r. 1l-t1~ ., 46no 80
will pay the fixed charges operating expenses,
all deficits. and leave sum sufficient to pay a
II per cent. dividend capitalization. There
is not another road in Ohio Indiana which can
show so4avorable an exhibit
The citizens of Kokomo and of Peru Ind.
are making faces at each other over which is the
more important station of the two. The Perm
Republican says kokomo has never been any
thing but a way station any road. and poor
one at that the main line of the Wabash which
through Peru doing more business than
all the small affairs running through kokomo.
The c., H. e. D. people placing under their
passenger equipments, even to the baggage cars,
n truck patterned after the ideas of c. c. Waite,
general manager of the road. This truck Is
combined wood and iron: has four wheels, yet is
eight feet from center TO center being nearly as
long are the sx-wheeed trucks The coach
rests twenty elliptic and eight spiral springs,
and there is not tho least Jar as it passes over
switches or a rough piece of track.
The friction between the shippers at this point
and the freight officials rate matters is
gradually passing away and on most classes of
freight the rates very satisfactory. Chand-
Ter & Taylor state that they getting very
satisfactory rates on machinery A A. Barnes.
of the Udell works, says he Is better of than